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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Destiny Reading for John Doe (1)

What is a
destiny reading?

There are
numerous different answers to this question depending on how one defines
“destiny”. To me, destiny is just a wide path to walk on from the day a person
is born until the day he leaves this world. He has freedom to choose to walk on
which side of the path. There are also crossroads where he can make a choice
about the path he is going to walk on for the rest of his life. There is just
one thing that is fixed – what the person is about to encounter, including when
there is a crossroad. The person is also destined to meet with other people who
may have important influence on his life. However, his reaction to listen to or
ignore these influences is his choice. His character may lead him to his choice
but his character is also subject to change with time and space.

Destiny reading
is to give guidance to people to make the best choice to improve his life. A
lot of people have forgotten about the basic teaching of the Yijing – change is
the word. We can talk about accuracy of what we are going to encounter but we
cannot talk about accuracy of the outcome. Destiny is in our own hands although
most of the time we are quite helpless when we want to make a better choice. We
fail because of our inability we are born with.

How to read the
destiny of a person with the Four Pillars chart? Understanding the theory is a
must but you really understand the theory only when you can forget about the
complicated details. These details are to help you understand the theory but
not the theory itself. Do not look at the finger pointing to the moon but look
at the moon itself.

A destiny
reading will be most uninteresting if you talk about the type of chart, the
useful god (yong shen 用神), and a lot of
other gods. It is even worse when you talk about direct and indirect whatever
because the term is simply misleading. The so called 10 gods are ingredients
making up the life of a person and therefore all directly affecting the person.
“Useful god” is also not good translation because it does not bring out the
real meaning.

So far are you
following what I say? Then how to do a reading? I will demonstrate this with the Four Pillars
chart of John Doe. There are thousands of people having the same chart. What
are the similarities in their lives?

First of all, we
have to point out that the chart consists of four columns or pillars similar to
those supporting a house. Each pillar has a foundation below ground and a
visible part above ground. The strength and beauty of the visible part depends
on whether the foundation is solid and whether the entire pillar is made of
good material. The foundation of the four pillars are inter-related. Whether
the visible parts are well arranged will also determine whether the whole
structure is good.

The next thing
to mention is that the ingredients in life are labeled with everyday used
terms: wealth, power, resource, self together with siblings, friends, enemies
and colleagues, and lastly output or performance. We do not expect our readers
(or clients if we do it as a professional) to understand the detail implication
of these terms but they are definitely better than telling the reader or client
that he is water and is ocean water and that fire is his wealth and his wife,
etc. Imagine someone gives a reading saying that you are strong water and that
more water brings bad luck to you. Are you going to advise him to stop drinking water?

Sometimes a
diagram is better than a thousand words.

The third pillar
counting from the right is most important as it represents the person and his
marriage. Marriage to a person’s life is undeniably the most
important support for the person. For someone who remains single throughout his
life time, this support comes from his belief and we can say that he is married
to his belief.

We must also emphasize on the importance of the month pillar, the second pillar from the
right because of its intimacy to the third pillar and this is something born
with that cannot be changed. The fourth pillar is also very important because
of its intimacy with the third pillar again but it deals with what the person
can do after birth. There is, of course, limitation to what a person can and cannot do and
it is revealed by this pillar.

So far, I think
the man on the street can understand what I have been talking about. In the
next article of this series, I will give a reading to John Doe based on his
Four Pillars chart without all the uninteresting technical terms so that he
can understand what I say.